THE RISING SOIT. Mrs. E. M. Williams of 814 East 8th street was given a musical sur prise party Saturday night . Miss Fanny Reed was leading lady. , For special parties and night lunch es,' call up the ArnoKl Cafe, 1221 Bal timore. 'Phone 2874 Walnut. Euro pean and American. Mrs. M. Arnold, Proprietress. For Sale, an up-to-date restaurant Call and see Sam Chandler at 114 East 6th street. Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please t's Ibe little blu we collect here an thtr That enable! us to run from year to year." LOCALS. The Dentlgt, Dr. Carrion of 910 East 12th street, we Invite your at tention to the fact that he is estab lished her and is competent as a workman, he is one of our race and must be encouraged along the prof- feslonal line. If you need anything In the teeth line stop In and see him. Wm. Crump on sick list. Elicl Harris is very sick. Mrs. Annie Ranzle of 638 1-2 Cot tage Lane is again very sick. Dr. Perry has spent the better pa...

1 9 ) 'St Vs. . 1.. ..A -1 ." a. 1 . ffl f ,T' kkkkkkkkkkkkkklkkkkkkkkW Straighten Up Te main imierular surportt of body weaken and let to under Backache er Lumbaro. Ts restore, etrentltiea ani straighten up, ue St. Jacobs Oil Price SSe. and BOc. Pago Fonco is Tvico As Strong My Kama la. Address I Intend to bay rods of fence. Cut out and mail to PAGE WOVEN Looking for a Home? Then svhv not keen In vlow the 10 I nln fact that the farming lands of are iufficlent to tupport population of 50,000,000 or overr TBc imniigratiuil for tb put six jriMu b3 boon phenomenal. FREE Homittiid Lands aaally accasaible, while other landt may be par chaaed from Railway and Ijind Companiea. The grain and grating landa of Western Canada are the beat on the continent, producing the best grain, and cattle (fed on grasa alone) ready for market. Market. Hchoole, Rallwaya and all other eondltlona make Weatrrn Canada) an anil able apot for tha aettler. Write to the Superintendent Immigration, Otta wa, for a de...

If Pays to Advertise In the Rising Gon VOLUME VIII. The mm LEXINGTON NEWS. Horn To the wife of Mr. Leo Wright, a girl, November 25. Horn To the wife of Mr. John Douglass, a girl, November 27. Mrs. Maria Saunders is quite 111. Her son, Rev. George Saunders, and mother were called home to see her. Mr. Kllis Williams Is some better. Mr. F. E. Hayden and Mrs. E. Ray were called to Wellington Wednesday to see Mrs. Laura Walton, who was quite 111. She Is a Daughter of tho Tabernacle. The IT. H. F.s and the S. M. T.s will have their annual celebration on tho 20th. Tickets will be sold at 13 cents. We ask everybody to buy a ticket. Also Deborah Tabernacle will have an entertainment on the 29th. Admission JO cents. Mr. Harrison Currey, Mrs. Hannah White. Mrs. Emma Smith, Mr. Jerry McCill and Mr. Monero Worcuff paid ip their subscription for The Rising Son. Wo hope others will do tho Mime. We ask every one to pay up by tho first of January. Mrs. Hattlo Jackson subscribed for The Rising Son. R...

I w w . m- m m m m - m m - - If If - W" W " H" - - - l w Sirius, the Star of Bethlehem I BJEQJdiiOdDQDS Theory of Profs. Forbes and Servis Refuted Kepler's Hypothesis Untenable Star in the East Must Have Been a Magian Star Were the Magi, or Wise Men, Keltic Druids? .V S The. Star of Bethlehem Is a theme of wondrous power. It hat fascinated ages of the East and philosophers of the West. It has been discussed these nineteen hundred years by men of varying minds with a freshness that never falls. It excites a glow of fer vid love In the breast of the saint It kindles the dying embers of hope In the soul of the sinner. It Is the ray F, of Heaven's own light to the afflicted. I'ji It beckons the prodigal back to the ', Father's home. It gives strength to ''V the living. It brings peace to the dy Vf In , ' j But though a mystery of awe to '.. J angels, It Is a 8ymbol of Love Divine ;,'; to men. As such It cannot fall to pro ; lfoundly Interest every Intelligent In- wqulrer after truth. Th...

. THE RISING SON. 4Sw Wm. Fairfax, A. W. Walker, j remember pi a nenaDiei ua to Society Reporetr. Agent, Lexington, Mo. eiwe we collect here an thsr e run from year to year." LOCALS. St f,' y ff, Next week is Christmas week, 'i i Read The Rising Son. , i." The Guild met with Mrs. Blake Jrown Thursday evening. Miss Daisy Day is contemplating a i Vi'VlBlt to St. Joseph Christmas. if" The Son wishes everyone a merry Christmas. The Oxford club have their full dress il h.ll tho 9Q(h ft Mrs. C. Cummlngs, who has been on . ae sick list, is aoie to be out again. ;'( i t ,;; J Mr. Ieon Jordon Is making some nprovements on his home on Vine ireet t) r 5'Tne collector of The Son will bo j - Around next week, Please be 'eady "Dr.Smlth the Druggist on 12th St. still busy, but desires to meet you (and shake hands before Xmas. . . if The foundation is being laid for Mrs. J Samuel Jordon, Sr.,s' new home on ; ''!Sn9 treet "r Frank Taylor, who went to ' .1-,'fiPhoenlx, Ariz., for his health, writes '...

LET Mi: WALK O Master, let me walk with The In lowlyrnth of service fro-: Tell me Thy secret, help me bear The strain of toll, the fret of car. Help m the alow of heart to move, ity some cleur, wlnnin word of love; Teach me the waywanl f-t to ntny. And fiilJe them In the homeward way. Teach me Thy patience: still with The Jn closer. dearer company. To work that keepa faltb sweet and HOUR. In trust that triumph! ever wrong. In hope thnt sends a shining ray 1'ar down the future's bruailvnlna" way, In ncice that only Thou count give, With Thee, U Master, let tun live. o 1 Joan climbed wearily up the stairs to her third story room. She seldom felt tired, but to night the whole world looktxl criss-cross. She was a stranger In the city and among people who gave her no thought. She had been that many a time ia many a place, yet never bo fore In her twenty-six years had the thought so oppressed her. She had hailed with delight the chance of work here for a few weeks, as giving her the opixr...

STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS 19 TBS see rmTunY nning Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, Ma MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in toy SlU. Services striotty irtt-claue. Lad lea tod 6eat dine QS Ulra. Z, T. JOBOAN, UMiftf THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENED WONDERFUL DISCOVERY S Curly Hair Made Straight By PRICE 25c. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out tiii blank and Rend It with 1.00 and you will receive by express (1.00 worth of the Pomade and Iternia to agents. i J. NOTT, PARIS. MO. Enclosed plen.se P. O. Money Order ior 11. 00, for which send me as per your offer, 18.00 worth of the (treat Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name Street Town or City County Mat" Kxpress Ofllce I 'ate of this order SKNI) AU, Kl)KRTO F. J. NOTT. Box 81. Paris, Mo, FAST MAIL SERVICE A GOOD THING PUSH IT ALONG " The Train Service of the Missouri Paciiic Tim four flyors that leave Kansas City Union ili'jHit dally for St Louis and nH tx'lnts li'int note the '.rirvlng time: 9:r0 a. m., ...

"7! f If Pays to Advertise In the Rising Son VOLUME VIII. CL. '" if Ti "Erl vvv i e -s- mA-' pri lie i i r JL AV - ls . . M 1 Q!lllll!IIIIIIi1lll!ll!!!lli!fll!ll!l!!ll Good Old Tsi An. Protests against Hmpress An's course may be withdrawn, now tbat It haa been discovered that she Is beheading Journalists instead of 11 tors. Bank Notes as Fuel. The novel spectacle of a steamer be ing stoked with bank notes was once witnessed at a Mediteranean port. Forty-five Harks of the apparently val uable paper were tossed into the fur nace of the vessel's boiler. The notes were canceled documents of the Bunk Algiers. Charge for Table Napkin. On the continent of Kurope the ta ble napkin is charged to you, put down in cold pencil on the check brought by the waiter iwo cents la our money, whatever It may happen to be In centimes or pfennigs. Regulation for Track Walkers. Track walkers for certain Massa chusetts railroads are now required to wind a registering cIock at certain points every hour and ...

ACT IS iNOT I'OPULAlt PLLUCTANT REPUBLICAN SUP PORT OF THE CUBAN BILL. President McKinley Quoted by Con gressman Hepburn to Prove That the Only Sound Reciprocity ll That Which Exclude Competitive Prod uct. The number imil the tmnics of the Tit publican r. irvscntalivi' who voted ri'liii-tantly and iiiuI.t protest for thu Cuban n ciprociix lull will never be Known. It is. however, perfectly well Kiichii that it large number, probably i Majority. voted for the hill under jiri'ssure nf one sort or another and ntnitiKt their better J u! k tn - tit . Mr. lN'I'l'nin or Iowa. like the most of hi a--niei;ites. lacked the courage ti vote ikm onlini: to his convictions ami nuaiiist the hill. I, ut he liail the cotir un to say that he voteil for It under roiiMraint ami unwillingly. In his speech, of X.netiil.i-r 1: Mr. Hepburn o:f, that I,,, ttlls yielding to CO- leioti In n (;,. sai : "Mr. Chairman, 1 have Intimated that I Int, t., to vote f..r this hill, ami vet I eot:l s I iId it with reluc...

MLJMIS HLOOdDQDS WOMANS OF MEM ffWWWW' " I "lM 111 '.' ''WNiXwi'ri M iaaesatai iif Labor. What profit hath he that workth In that wherein he luborcth?" Eccleslastes 111., 9. Where the aulten desert slept There came a king to rule: Where the sluggish river crept Through shallow anil through pool. Came a spirit swift ami strong The alienees to break With ceaseless, humming song; "O, ye who sleep, awake!" Night was day and endless dawa All at this king's command; 8tlll his work swept on and on And Into every land; Deserts blossomed as the. rose And wonderous cities grew. But this king unresting goes In search of deeds to do. Bare of arm and brown of hand And clear and keen of eye. Knowing that beneath the sand Uncounted countries He; Knowing that the drowsing plain He may awake at length To the life of golden grain. He chants his song of strength. , At the thrilling of his call The forest and the tlolil. City street and city wull A chiming echo yield. Of It all. what la his KnlnT What ...

THE RISING SON. Win. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember pleane ire little bit we collect here a n there That enublea ut to run from year to year." LOCALS. Jim Brice Is very sick. Phil Scrob'glns la very sick. Mr. Joseph Brlce Is seriously ill. Miss Cyrine McDowell of Hanntbal, Is spending the holidays with Corlno White and Sallle Bowman, 1322 East 14th street. Mrs. W. Frederick Fairfax was called to Ft Madison, Iowa, last Tuesday to the bed side of her father, who is very dangerously 111. When you need anything in our lino step In at C. A. Evans, the imrlwr. He wishes you all a Happy Now Year. 10 7East 14th. We Invite you to come to our res taurant, at 104 E. 14th as it la thj only one In this part of the city. Ed lewis, Proprietor. Mr. Campbell the Druggist, on 2304 Vine Is well pleased with the outlook of his business so far, it should be cncouragelng to us as well as It is to him. Don't fall good people to encourage the colored man who has vent...

TRAIN WRECK ON BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD THE WORST IN MANY YEARS It was the nlsht before New Year's. Tne air was clear ntnl frosty, and the moon ami stars were shining down on the sparkling snow tliat covered the prairie, like the cloth on a round din Inn table. Toward midnight. If you had peeped from one of the windows 01 Mr. Hlain's farm house, you would have seen what would have appeared to have been a shadow, coming up the road toward the house. As It catue nearer you would have seen that It was a little animal about the size of a lamb, with great Ions eurs and a hob tad, and so white that at a little dis tance you could not toll it from tho now, But nobody saw tho shadow, for everyone lu the house wan asleep, ex- "Away He Scampered, Down the Road eopt the baby, who was lying wldo awake in her little cot nt the foot of mother's bed. .Iu.it ns tho clock was mrlklng midnight, there came n gen llo tap at the door. Baby heard It, but no one clue did. and she climbed out of her cot...

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